Prayer and Devotion
What a challenge for us this year as Catholics when the celebration that invites the greatest variety of participation from the people is closed to public worship. The celebration of the Lord’s entrance into Holy Week with the blessing of the palms, the grand procession singing the hosannas, and the moving narration of the Gospel…
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Songs:Put Your Trust in GodJesu, RedemptorI am Sure I Shall SeeChrist, You Are the LightPeace I Leave You Put your trust in God, and do not fear. God’s peace will dwell deep within your hearts. Put your trust in God. Jesu, Redemptor Jesu, redemptor omnium, tu lumen et splendor Patris, tibi sit Gloria, tibi jesu…
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This time of separation and distance from our Church and each other is trying. God’s people have endured exiles such as this countless times. The journey from Egypt to the Promised land can guide for our prayer life not just for this Lent, but for our whole experience facing the corona virus pandemic. During the…
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For Pope Blessing this Friday- Prayer for Protection in Time of Pandemic and Coronavirus Prayer Card
The recitation of the stations has errors in attribution of where these stations can be found. Here is the correct list. Apologies for the confusion. First Station, Jesus is condemned to death. St. Joseph, Louisiana Second Station, Jesus accepts his cross. Sts. Peter and Paul, Boonville Third Station, Jesus falls the first time. Our Lady…
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The Church encourages frequent, even daily, Holy Communion but, if at any time we cannot go to Mass in or out of this season of the coronavirus, we can still unite ourselves to the Eucharist through making a spiritual Communion. By making an Act of Spiritual Communion, we express our faith in Christ’s Real Presence in…
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O Immaculate Heart of Mary, we entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick.At the foot of the Cross, you participated in Jesus’ pain, with steadfast faith.Patroness of the Diocese of Jefferson City, you know what we need.We are certain of the power of your intercession, so that, as you did at Cana of Galilee,joy…
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